Context Matters

Reading Children's Bibles

Episode Summary

Rachel Wilkowski has worked and volunteered with kid's ministry at local churches in the Vancouver area. She is now finishing a PhD about the theology presented and omitted in children's Bibles. Sounds simple enough until you start to explore how to take a complex, multi-genre text like the Bible and simplify it for children without making it sound silly. What happens when we read the Bible carefully with children?

Episode Notes

I really am curious if you’ve paid attention to what is in or left out of Children’s bibles. And I have lingering questions! Do children's Bibles influence how teenagers engage the Bible? Have you ever compared a story in the children’s bible to the story in the adult bible?

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